Stan Lee - The portrayal of Marvel characters in movies (24/42)
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The creative genius of US writer Stan Lee (1922-2018) generated 'Spider Man', 'X-Men', 'The Hulk' and other complex characters. Marvel Comics with Lee at the helm became hugely successful. In January 2011, Lee received the 2428th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [Listener: Leo Bear; date recorded: 2006].
TRANSCRIPT: Marvel has been very lucky. They've… the movies that have been based on our characters really have been great… Spider-Man and the X-Men especially. The… we were so lucky to get Sam Raimi to direct Spider-Man, and to get Bryan Singer to direct the X-Men, and… those movies could not have been made as well years ago because now the special effects that we have… I was talking to one director the other day who said: ‘Stan, there is nothing you can dream of, nothing you can imagine, that we can't put on the screen’, which is true. And of course we did the movie of The Hulk, we did Daredevil. I… I've had fun, I do little cameos in most of these movies, and… they're going to do another X-Men, they're going to do another Spider-Man, they're working on another Fantastic Four, and they're also going to do Iron Man, they're going to do Captain America. On and on. I mean… every major character of Marvel's will be a movie. You know, I didn't mention the X-Men. There's one thing I could say about X-Men. I wanted to do another group and I thought, how could I make them different? And also, I've already done gamma rays and cosmic rays and radioactive spiders and… how can I give them some power in a different way? And then it occurred to me, I'm going to take the easy way out. The cowardly way. I'm going to just say they're mutants. We know that mutations exist in life. There are five-legged frogs and things like that, so I'll just give them whatever powers I want and say they're mutants, they mutated that way and it’ll save me having to look for the names of other rays. And another thing I tried to do… I tried to show - and this is just a subliminal part of it, but a lot of readers have caught it - one of the themes is - it's an anti-bigotry theme - we shouldn't hate people just because they're different, because our heroes of the X-Men are all different. Different from average humans, and because they're that different, the general public hates them, hounds them, harasses them, fears them. And again, when I used to do a lot of college lecturing so many of the students would get up and say, ‘We feel that the anti-bigotry message of the X-Men is a very strong one’, and of course Bryan Singer - the director - really latched on to that when he did the movie. And… and I was very happy about that.
[LB] And how much involvement do you have with the films? Do you come in at the script stage, or… ?
I have… I have actually no involvement at all with the movies. It's not for me to tell anybody how to make a movie because these people are better than I'll ever be, and also, even if I wanted to I'm not really an executive at Marvel any more. I have the title Chairman Emeritus which, as I'm sure you know, is an honorary title. It sounds great, I love saying, ‘Oh, I'm Chairman Emeritus of Marvel’, but it doesn't mean anything.
Stan’s reasoning for making X-men mutants is the reason why he is one of the greatest comic book writers to ever live. “Hmmm, you know wait a minute, I’m the writer so, eh, they’re just mutants” genius!
I love how he is just flat out honest about the way he created the characters. He doesn’t explain them in this super complex way, and how it could be form from the simplest thoughts
Stan was such a nice man. He deserved a longer life.
I just wish I’d met him
Storytelling level: 1000%
watching this in 2021....waiting for all the marvel movies and series to come❤
but without stan's cameos ;(
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Lovely human being
RIP
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Stan lee made one of the best characters in marvel universe also very unique approach to every characters he build like Fantastic 4 Xmen avengers on groups and also singular characters like spiderman ironman Thor and Captain America stories he wrote on that was so magnificent and amazing in every possible ways which impact today’s comic book world and to the writers and the fans Excelsior Stan Lee
Stan lee was the father of all his comic book characters from spidey to x men to cron head the the green guy to ff wing head
Next time someone says "you missed the WHOLE POINT of the X-Men!" to defend whatever the latest social justice trend is, just show them this interview.
The first two FF movies were fine. The third one was awful. X-Men Apocalypse is great because it's the first time in the X-Men films the X-Men put on their comic book outfits.
The live action TV shows in the 1970s were awful. I thought Captain America and Spiderman were awful. There was one Captain America movie in which the Red Skull was Italian instead of a full fledged Nazi. Now that was both weird and wrong. The 21st Century films are definitely a step or three in the right direction.
Yes your right about that. In the 1970s-with the exception of Superman, Wonder Woman, The Hulk and.....kind of......Shazam-it was ok as far as saturday morning shows go-the studios just didn't know how to do live action superhero films or tv shows. Spider-man and Captain America were awful as you said (though I have to admit that I did kind of like the Captain America films) and Dr. Strange was very mediocre. The captain America film in 1990 and the Punisher live action were not very good. The characters of Thor and Daredevil were done all wrong for the Hulk tv movies in the 1980s. Not untill 1998 was that the turning point for Marvel films.